Toronto Film Festival: Standing ovation for Robert Redford's acting swansong
Summary
Robert Redford has received a standing ovation at the Toronto premiere of the swansong film thats being tipped to win him his first acting Oscar. The Hollywood veteran, known for such films as The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Out of Africa, has said he now intends to focus on directing. Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek and singer Tom Waits also star in David Lowerys film, which had its first public screening in Toronto on Monday. A key aspect of the film, based on the life of career criminal Forrest Tucker, is the combative relationship between Redfords character and a police detective on his trail. The idea for The Old Man and the Gun, and its title, came from a 2003 New Yorker article by David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon.